At the start of the year I had the pleasure of attending a seminar held by Trevor and Faye of Yerbury Studio entitled “Portraiture – The Business and the Art”. It was a full day’s teaching on both the marketing and the artistic side of running a portraiture photography business. It was an extremely helpful and enjoyable day, Trevor’s manner was excellent and I felt like I didn’t stop writing notes the whole time.

The morning’s session was spent focusing on marketing ideas for your business followed by an afternoon demonstrating lighting set ups. I loved Trevor’s simple yet highly effective lighting techniques, showing that classic images are always the best. Some of my images below from the day.

One light, one camera, one prime lens…